One of the new heifer calves that was born yesterday had a misshaped ear and I didn't actually notice it until today! When I was feeding her morning bottle I thought that the ear on the right looked quite large compared to her other ear. Upon further inspection I realized that it was deformed at birth. In the picture below you can see that her ear has extra cartilage forming a cone like shape. This will not impact her at all, it just makes her look a bit more distinguished compared to her other calf friends! I also included a short video of her drinking her milk replacer out of a bucket! She was quite feisty and ready for dinner so it was quite the challenge trying to get a picture of her that was not excessively blurry.
Chores went as usual today, and there was some discussion about setting up new calf pens for our older weaned calves later this week. I will update the blog as soon as we make the pen changes.
Video link.
Today we had one bull calf born in the afternoon.
Today we shipped 4,890 gallons of milk.
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